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This whimsical Off-Broadway hit musical is aptly reworked and transferred to the screen. The self-descriptively titled Naked Boys Singing is a musical revue of songs that poke fun at gay life, body image, love, loss and yearning.More

Emerson Thorsen is an exceptionally talented and intelligent 13-year-old who has been raised and educated by his free-thinking parents, Rog and Kaya. Emerson is clever, witty and has recently written his first novel, but he doesn't mix well with others.
Rog and Kaya decide to enroll him in...More

How does an insecure teenager become more self-assertive? That's the challenge for Olympia, a young girl stigmatized for being different. Same Sex Parents begins with Olympia and her classmate Leo enjoying their first romantic encounter at a weekend dance. Back at school, Geraldine, a jealous...More

Nina Shah is a feisty young Indo-Scottish woman with an identity crisis. Nina previously left home under a cloud after a row with her father. When her father dies suddenly, Nina is forced to return and run the family owned curry house. This reunites her with her childhood friend Bobbi, a wannabe...More

People suffer largely unnoticed while the rest of the world goes about its business. This is a documentary exploration of the mythic beauty of the Golden Gate Bridge, the most popular suicide destination in the world, and those drawn by its call. Steel and his crew filmed the bridge during...More

In 1982 legendary British heavy metal band Spinal Tap attempt an American comeback tour accompanied by a fan who is also a film-maker. The resulting documentary, interspersed with powerful performances of Tap's pivotal music and profound lyrics, candidly follows a rock group heading towards...More

From Tom Stoppard the Oscar Winning Writer/Director of "Shakespeare in Love" comes another unique twist on the work of William Shakespeare. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (Gary Oldman & Tim Roth) are two incidental characters in "Hamlet", summoned to the court of the King of Denmark. This story is...More

Fresh-faced young Michael Rimmer worms his way into an opinion poll company and is soon running the place. He uses this as a springboard to get into politics and in the mini-skirted flared-trousered world of 1970 Britain starts to rise through the Tory ranks.

Vanya is a 6 year old orphan living in a rundown orphanage in a remote Russian village. For Vanya and the other children, life is without hope, unless, of course, they are adopted by wealthy foreigners. For Vanya, hope comes in the form of an Italian couple. But while arrangements are being made...More

This story opens in 1938 in Rome, where Marcello has just taken a job working for Mussollini and is courting a beautiful young woman who will make him even more of a conformist. Marcello is going to Paris on his honeymoon and his bosses have an assignment for him there. Look up an old professor...More

Shy, reclusive girl Pinky starts work at a solarium and becomes emotionally attached to her fellow worker, Millie. After an accident, the women seem to inexplicably swap personalities, and then return back to normal. A third woman, a local artist, prowls around on the periphery of the story.
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The Godfather of the ‘midnight movie’ fully-restored and released after 35 years. One of cinema’s most controversial and influential filmmakers Alejandro Jodorwosky’s 1968 debut feature Fando y Lis caused a riot in Mexico; El Topo dragged the hippy generation into the ‘70s and...More

Stanley Kubrick's classic black comedy about a group of war-eager military men who plan a nuclear apocalypse is both funny and frightening - and seems as relevant today as ever. Through a series of military and political accidents, two psychotic generals - U.S. Air Force Commander Jack D. Ripper...More

Successful children's writer and illustrator Ted Cole (Jeff Bridges) invites 16-year-old writing intern Eddie (Jon Foster) to summer in the privileged beach community of East Hampton, where he lives with his beautiful wife Marion (Kim Basinger) and their young daughter Ruth. Ted and Marion are...More

Maurice (Peter O'Toole) and Ian (Leslie Phillips) are veteran English actors and the oldest of friends. Now in their seventies, they continue to work a little, but their comfortable, dusty lives are disrupted when Ian's brash grand-niece, Jessie (Jodie Whittaker), arrives to stay. Jessie quickly...More

During an anti-globalisation protest, seven candidates are assembled for the final stage of the selection process for a single high-level position at a multinational company. The tension becomes palpable when they realise they must compete against one another in a ruthless new American HR test...More

Sherry Swanson returns home to New Jersey after serving a three year prison sentence. Eager to reestablish a relationship with her young daughter, Sherry soon discovers that coming back to the world she left behind is far more difficult than she had planned.More

From Errol Morris, the award-winning director of The Thin Blue Line , comes the provocative true story of Fred A. Leuchter. Jr. The son of a prison worker and a self-taught execution expert, Leuchter was hired by prisons across the country to make capital punishment equipment more humane.
When...More

From the guerilla filmmaker who brought you Roger and Me comes the most daring documentary show to hit the American Public since Moore's TV Nation: THE AWFUL TRUTH
* Episode 1:
Avertiser Appreciation Night
* Episode 2:
Compassionate Conservative Night
* Episode 3:...More

From the guerilla filmmaker who brought you Roger and Me comes the most daring documentary show to hit the American Public since Moore's TV Nation: THE AWFUL TRUTH
* Episode 1:
A Cheaper Way to Conduct a Witch Hunt
Funeral at an HMO
* Episode 2:
Beat the Rich...More

Arlo Guthrie's song is converted into a motion picture. Arlo goes to see Alice for Thanksgiving and as a favor takes her trash to the dump. When the dump is closed, he drops it on top of another pile of garbage at the bottom of a ravine. When the local sheriff finds out a major manhunt begins....More

Sarah Morton is a famous British mystery author. Tired of London and seeking inspiration for her new novel, she accepts an offer from her publisher John Bosload to stay at his home in Luberon, in the South of France. It is the off-season, and Sarah finds that the beautiful country locale and...More

Steve is a man who has it all, a successful career, wonderful children, beautiful home and a loving wife. However, returning to his home after work on his birthday, he finds his house deserted and darkened with almost all the lightbulbs missing, all easy access outside cut off and a videotape...More

This documentary captures the life story of legendary Hollywood producer and studio chief Robert Evans. The first actor to ever to run a film studio, Robert Evans' film career started in 1956, poolside at the Beverly Hills Hotel. His good looks, charm and overwhelming confidence captured the eye...More

Anthology of nine short anime (Japanese animation) films tied in to the 1999 blockbuster "The Matrix" and its sequels. "Final Flight of the Osiris": The crew of the hovercraft Osiris attempt to warn their city of an imminent attack. "The Second Renaissance, Parts 1 & 2": The story behind the war...More

In New Zealand, the teenager Janey (Alicia Fulford-Wierzbicki), her young brother Jim (Aaron Murphy), her mother Kate (Sarah Peirse) and her father Ed (Alistair Browning) are spending their summer vacation in a seaside cottage. Janey takes care of Jim most of the time, teaches him how to have...More

Dedee Truitt is the opposite of sweet sixteen. Politically incorrect, outrageous, and bracingly honest, she descends on the Indiana town of her half-brother Bill like the force of nature she is. Within weeks Dedee seduces his beautiful but befuddled live-in-boyfriend Matt, announces Matt's the...More